Michael Strong is the director of Turnstone Archaeology. He has
successfully undertaken or managed more than two hundred and eighty
projects since 1994.
Michael has established a leading reputation in Queensland as a
landscape archaeologist and cultural heritage manager. Major
projects include dams, highways and road corridors, powerlines,
mines, urban development projects, bridges and tunnels and the
development of museums and keeping places.
Michael Strong has worked in this field since 1992 with Aboriginal
groups from Camooweal, Charters Towers, Proserpine, Mackay,
Gladstone, Bundaberg, Burnett region, the Sunshine Coast,
Caboolture, Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan and Lockyer areas. Aboriginal
communities include the Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, Indjalndji,
Gudjala, Gia, Giru-Dala, Yuibera, Wiri, Jagera, Ugarapul, Mununjali
and Wakka Wakka.
The Turnstone logo is derived from the Turnstone, a small plover
that scurries about flipping over rocks to see what is underneath —
much like archaeologists!
Turnstone Archaeology has evolved an exciting new process of
predictive archaeology called Predictive Landscape And Cultural
Environments (PLACE) MODELLING that can assist Aboriginal
communities in the identification of their cultural landscapes, and
aid in the identification of constraints during early planning of
major developments, such as highways, roads, dams, mines and other
major infrastructure.